- Irresistible house music to keep your living-room dance floor alive.
- The ecstatic house of For You feels poignant, bottling the loved-up memory of a sweaty night out into a 30-minute package to enjoy at home. There's a joy to I. JORDAN's music that goes beyond the sum of its parts and elevates it to something else, the same pure giddiness that made their "DNT STP MY LV" an instant hit last summer. The new EP takes the formula and slices and dices it six ways, finding fresh nuance.
For those looking for another "DNT STP MY LV," check the title track or "I'm Waiting (Just 4 U)," two deliriously upbeat filter house bangers. There's keen pacing and clever looping in "I'm Waiting" that reminds me of future funk-era Onra or Saint Pepsi's dazzling vaporwave classic Hit Vibes. Elsewhere, Jordan gets meditative and melancholy with "Westbourne Ave" and "Emotional Melodical," tracks with a new-found lightness, and then jets off like Sonic The Hedgehog collecting rings on the slippery "Rave City."
This a record that confirms Jordan is a producer with a special talent for looping hooks and driving them home. It's like they took the best parts of French house, vaporwave and nu-disco and distilled them to their most dopamine-triggering elements. I. JORDAN is a salve for missing the club, if there ever was one.
Update, June 28th, 2023: This piece has been updated with I. JORDAN's new artist name.
TracklistA1 I'm Waiting (Just 4 U)
A2 For You
A3 Emotional Melodical
B1 Rave City
B2 Westbourne Ave
B3 Dear Nan King